W. Somerset Maugham
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1,790 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why, Jake, replied the apparition, whom I have thought it useless to describe.
Don't you know me?
I confess that your countenance is familiar, returned my friend, but I cannot at this moment recall your name.
I never forget a face, but names I cannot remember.
Jake, rumbled the spectre, with sepulchre dignity, a look of displeasure crawling across his pallid features.
You're foolin'
I give you my word I'm quite serious.
Oblig me with your name and favor me with a statement of your business with me at this hour.
The disembodied party sank uninvited into a chair, spread out his knees, and stared blankly at a Dutch clock with an air of weariness and profound discouragement.
Perceiving that his guest was making himself tolerably comfortable, he
My friend turned again to his figures, and silence reigned supreme.
The fire in the grate burned noiselessly with a mysterious blue light, as if it could do more if it wished.
The Dutch clock looked wise and swung its pendulum with studied exactness, like one who is determined to do his precise duty and shun responsibility.
The cat assumed an attitude of intelligent neutrality.
Finally the spectre trained his pale eyes upon his host, pulled in a long breath and remarked
Jake, I'm your dead father.
I come back to have a talk about the way things is a goin' on.
I want to know if you think it's right not to recognise your dead parent
It is a little rough on you, dear, replied the son, without looking up.
But the fact is that
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